Epidemic
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Sep 28, 2026
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
By 1849, England and Wales had racked up around 53,000 deaths from cholera.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Epidemics kept hitting the city until, in 1854, a physician by the name of John Snow observed an outbreak in Soho and traced the deaths to the use of water from a particular pump on Broad Street.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
He basically single-handedly stopped the outbreak by getting the government to remove the pump's handle.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Over the next year, he showed that cholera didn't strike people who used water from less polluted sources upstream of the city's sewage.
Ron ParksHOST
Then there is the potential to become either an agent for humanity's greater benefit or an agent of destruction, similar to the development of nuclear energy, and then the bomb.
Ron ParksHOST
Epidemics in the past weren't intentionally produced by humans, but humans were, in some way, contributors.
Ron ParksHOST
Ancient plagues spread largely because humans overpopulated certain areas without proper hygiene or rodent infestation control.
Ron ParksHOST
Or they lacked the insight of more modern infectious disease public health management.
Atiq Ahmad BhattiHOST
Now, Jeremy's work has taken him to Tanzania, where he and Camilla Sher co-founded Homeopathy for Health in Africa.
Atiq Ahmad BhattiHOST
Today, actually, in today's episode, we are going to be talking to Jeremy about some of the work that he's been undertaking recently, including his new book, The Homeopathic Treatment of Epidemics, Naila.
Naila CheemaHOST
Yes.
Naila CheemaHOST
And his four hour approach to Materia Medica and his adaptive translation of Hahnemann's Organon.
Naila CheemaHOST
It's not an individual territory anymore.
Naila CheemaHOST
It's the collective that comes together that we see in homeopathy as well, as well as in provings.
Naila CheemaHOST
And that is something that you have also brought forward in your book, Epidemics.
Naila CheemaHOST
Look at the collective.
SamanthaHOST
And this is regardless of age as well.
SamanthaHOST
So she is actually referring to a study titled Women Live Longer Than Men Even During Severe Famine and Epidemics.
SamanthaHOST
In that study, Research paper, they write, women are the life expectancy champions.
SamanthaHOST
They can expect to live longer than men almost anywhere in the world today.
Jeffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
Proportion of births to burials, 143 to 100.
Jeffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
Quotes, Epidemics prevailed for 6 years, from 1736 to 1741, which checked the increase.
Jeffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
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Jeffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
DUKEDOM OF MAGDENBURG.
David PennHOST
I'm not arguing about this with you.
Royce WhiteHOST
It's epidemic level.
David PennHOST
Epidemics are different than the same thing.
David PennHOST
It's not the same thing.
Royce WhiteHOST
Eh, not-- More or less, it-- the result's the same.
Melissa JolwanHOST
And it went poorly.
Melissa JolwanHOST
Epidemics and violent clashes dramatically decreased the Aboriginal population.
Melissa JolwanHOST
According to NatGeo, there were at least 270 massacres of Aboriginal Australians during the country's first 140 years.
Melissa JolwanHOST
Yikes.
Lee Alan DugatkinGUEST
Because sooner or later, something like this had to happen.
Lee Alan DugatkinGUEST
Epidemics will break out of horse flu.
Lee Alan DugatkinGUEST
They've broken out before, but now all of a sudden when you have 40,000 horses in New York City and 1,000 of them in a stable, and horses being moved around by the hundreds and thousands in, on trains, all of a sudden, boom, it happens and you say, "You know what? We have to change this."
Miranda MelcherHOST
Well, I think that is a great place to end our discussion about the book.
Lee Alan DugatkinGUEST
And I think it was really something to recognize that for me as a biologist, for example, and a historian of science, that living, breathing organisms as a way to power cities was something that was there in a dramatically large way, and yet, ultimately, It just had to go away because sooner or later, something like this had to happen.
Lee Alan DugatkinGUEST
Epidemics will break out of horse food.
Lee Alan DugatkinGUEST
They've broken out before.
Lee Alan DugatkinGUEST
But now all of a sudden, when you have 40,000 horses in New York City and 1,000 of them in a stable and horses being moved around by the hundreds and thousands on trains, all of a sudden, boom, it happens.
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